Here’s the secret: People want to help you. You spent the time researching and refining your experience and now, you’re finally ready to apply for a new job, or submit that graduate school application. That’s also the moment you realize you need references. And when you wrack your brain for…

Thanks, Edward Sylvan and Authority Mag, for this great conversation!

Don’t let others devalue your expertise. — Recently, I was approached to speak to an organization. They claimed they had no budget to pay me. But they planned to charge their membership to hear me speak. I bring value when I speak to any organization. I deserve to be paid for it. I would not let him…

“Why would you minor in African-American Studies?” For over 20 years, I’ve been asked versions of this question, in job interviews, by colleagues, and by acquaintances. Implicit in the question, regardless of the background of the asker, is another question of why a white woman would do such a thing…

My most meaningful accomplishments are not always the ones on my CV. Remembering this helps me put any setback into perspective. Across professions, many deserving people are receiving challenging career and financial news due to COVID-19. …

Litigation between the United States and the Chinese corporations Huawei and TikTok made headlines in 2020. Less prominent-but more important for U.S. corporations-is the recent federal arrest warrant issued for a Chinese Zoom employee for shutting down Zoom meetings upon Chinese government orders and harassing the participants and their families…

It is nearly impossible to get every country in the world to agree on anything at all. But in 1949, the world decided to regulate the very act most fundamental to the birth of the nation-state: war. After witnessing the atrocities of World War II, all of the countries in…